Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Assassinations
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Hello and welcome to another conversation about conflict on an Angry Planet. Thanks for letting us kick up our heels this August, it was a rough one. We may not have been releasing, but we WERE recording.
The first episode upon our return is with terrorism and vice presidency expert Aaron Mannes. Mannes is lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and was one of the first people to use big data sets to study terrorist group behavior. These days he’s really into vice presidents. We sat down with him for a wide-ranging conversation that covered everything from Aaron Burr to the Bonus Army.
- Why are America and Israel all-in on assassination?
- International relations versus the domestic tensions
- Stats out of dead bodies
- Assassination: Obama Style
- The terrorist’s dilemma
- Matthew immediately figures out how wrong he is
- The case for Aaron Burr
- The Bonus Army
- Taking a shot at the vice president
Analyzing Assassination Plots Against VPs
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature |
| 0:05.1 | It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. Hello and welcome to another conversation about conflict on an angry planet. It's Matthew and Jason again. Who wants to talk about |
| 0:27.0 | assassinations, targeted killings? Someone took a shot at Trump. Israel assassinated a Hamas leader in Tehran. |
| 0:35.4 | There's been a lot of targeted killings in the news. |
| 0:38.4 | So we wanted an assassination expert, |
| 0:41.2 | and I saw a thread on Twitter or X that caught my eye and its |
| 0:45.6 | author is here with us today sir can you introduce yourself so I'm Aaron Manis |
| 0:50.0 | thank you for having me on but let, I'm not sure I'm an assassination expert. |
| 0:56.1 | I have not assassinated very many people myself or of an amateur, but I have studied the issue. |
| 1:03.0 | Academically, you are or were in the past, I should say, because your life is different now than it was 10 years ago. |
| 1:12.0 | You were someone who studied targeted killings and terrorist groups |
| 1:17.1 | academically. |
| 1:18.1 | That is a more accurate statement. I have been involved in terrorism research for a couple of decades. |
| 1:28.3 | I've done quantitative and qualitative and I've been involved with computer labs that did some really cool cutting edge data |
| 1:35.7 | analytic research data analytics on terrorist group behavior. |
| 1:39.5 | So yeah. |
| 1:40.5 | So can you kind of walk us through right before we jumped on the call you said that you |
| 1:44.4 | you had planned to turn this thread that you'd written into a paper and I'm kind of |
| 1:51.0 | wondering if you can just kind of walk us through that thread and like its main points and why it was on your mind. |
| 1:58.0 | So back in 2006, I was getting my PhD. I had to do a stat paper. I don't do math so good. I got through my stat requirements because I happened to be married to |
| 2:15.2 | a statistician who walked me through it. But I had this revelation, the guy teaching the |
| 2:19.7 | class, great guy, he did polling. I said, let me go to a topic that I know a lot more about than he does. I was a |
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